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can anyone find me that mesopotamian clay tablet telling you to marry a party girl because she'll bring you joy

The next time you've got a friend over, set an example and put your phone on the table, visibly there but not too far away, to let them know that you're intentionally present, not distracted, your attention is undivided and you want to be fully focused on being right there to spend time with them. Don't mention it or draw attention to this, you're not doing this to be preachy or wanting praise, you just want to be a good friend and you value your friend's time. Ideally, your friend will either notice this or even pick it up without conscious notice, and set their own phone aside on the table as well.

Then, when your friend takes a minute to go to the bathroom, grab your phone and take a photo of your friend's phone sitting on your table. Do not touch it, and put your own phone back exactly where it was immediately once you've got the picture. Carry on with whatever you two were doing.

Once your time is up and your friend has left for home, wait for a good 15 minutes or so, for them to either get back home or be well on their way there. Text your friend, "hey, you forgot your phone", and send them the photo you took of their phone on your table. Set a stopwatch running from the moment your friend sees the message.

Measure how many seconds it takes for your friend to process this and tell you to go fuck yourself.

I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

This is so stupid

the lizard and the twink compel me. not just because of the chemistry and the drama and the banter

we have middle aged paranoid trauma queen. he's bitchy and mean and so so sad. he loves fashion and gardening and bombs. his father was reptile himmler. he was groomed to be a killer. he's sentimental and unable to be sincere. he tortured people until he couldn't stomach it anymore. he had a drug addiction that almost killed him. he's pathetic and a little creepy

we also have pretty boy himbo supergenius. he's kind and silly and so so angry. he loves tennis and playing dress-up and medical malpractice. he is dr. Frankenstein (on request only). he's idealistic and unable to live up to his own morals. he keeps dating his patients. he tortured a dying man with a mind probe. he was designed to be a legacy. he's horny and a little desperate

and you'd think they'd be an explosion of terror when they're together, but no. it implodes and fizzles out. they eat chocolates and discuss Shakespeare insincerely and probably cuddle. they just enjoy each other's company

they're still toxic and dysfunctional and a little off-putting to be around. they are everyone else's problem. they're dangerous tools to be wielded by others. but when they're together, they even each other out. and they just get to dysfunctionally function.

and I think that's beautiful

Area Man Struggles with Choice Between Basic Morality and Homosexual Desire Toward Worst Person Alive

Peter Morwood

I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry.

I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have to inform everyone that our friend, my dear husband and creative partner of nearly forty years, Peter Morwood, passed away suddenly early this morning after a brief illness that as late as yesterday (when his doctor saw him) had seemed to be on the mend.

I'm not in any position to say much more about this situation now, as you'll understand my current mental state is not up to the task. (I keep expecting to wake up from a bad dream, but it shows no sign of breaking.) I will let people know more about this in coming days.

There will be a postmortem shortly to determine the exact cause of his death. I'll share what details of this are appropriate as they become clear.

Meanwhile in the short term I'm very much going to need assistance with the expenses that in the days that follow will inevitably surround what's happened. For those people who want to assist, please feel free to use the Ko-Fi account here, and simply tag the associated messages, etc, "P expenses". ETA: Please choose the Stripe payment option at Ko-Fi rather than PayPal, as PP seems to be having some kind of obscure difficulties at the moment. I have disconnected PayPal until this is resolved.

My love will wait for me, I know, however long it takes. He's never minded waiting. (the saddest smile) My job now is to make sure he's not forgotten while I go on.

Meanwhile, can I just say to all of of you: I thank you all ahead of time for all the support and fondness for Peter that I know so many of you will express. He'd blush over it, I know. (He always did.) Please forgive me for being unable to do much in the way of answering messages, just now, in the wake of having to get to grips with this sudden and awful change in my world.

But also let me say, so urgently: Hug your loved ones now, while you can. Eventually a day will come when, expected or not, your opportunities end.

Thanks, friends.

--DD

Screenshots that look like Garak is astonished by men's genitals out of context

2x17 - Playing God

NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT ROUND 2 POLL 38

PROPAGANDA:

[Kazuki]

"He already mothers so hard. I say it's time he gives Miri a little sibling. Let's make this buddy daddy a buddy mommy."

[Julian]

"he is EXTREMELY submissive and breedable."

[submitted by @justanotherkathrynjanewayblog]

garak, with a mildly twisted ankle: HELLO?!? whose dick do i have to suck to get PRIORITY MEDICAL TREATMENT around here???!? sisko, with a stress migraine: don’t answer that. nobody answer that question.

I was at the LA Times Festival of Books this weekend, and was pleasantly surprised (okay, shocked) that I was invited to be photographed just like the fancy people (Amanda Gorman? Are you KIDDING ME? HOLY CRAP!). I did my best to feel comfortable, and I just love the picture they published.

In fair Terok Nor, where we lay our scene

I was talking to @paper-erythrocytes and described Bashir thusly, she said she needed it on a shirt, so here you go!!

POV: you're a cardassian space vole and the twink doctor is tryna grab you with his little grabbers

request for “shojo pose”. I don’t remember what that is but if you wanted an anime pose here’s your anime pose

It seems to be the general assumption that Julian's holoprogrammer friend Felix is around Julian's age and went to the academy with him but like. What if he wasn't. Felix is a dorky, balding, mustached middle-aged divorcee who’s married to his job and sees his kids every other weekend. Julian is his muse and also inspired him to follow his dream of becoming a horny adventure holoprogram designer after they met while Felix was teaching an Intro to Holotechnology course at the Academy

NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT ROUND 1 POLL 108

PROPAGANDA:

[Elim]

"Because he would be soooo annoying about it and it would be funny."

[Rodimus]

"Look, he is absolutely going to fuck a wide variety of aliens mechanical and not with protection, and it is going to come back to haunt him in the form of mechpreg."

Honestly, Julian, you're exaggerating. O'Brien can't be a day over 38.

my girlfriend wont stop telling me about how luther sloan is mormon

Self-portrait of Louis XIII, painted by him at the age of 6.France, 1607

modern empath crisis of faith

He has an aura to him previously only seen in depictions of Mary holding baby Jesus

ds9 episode concept: a high profile murder occurs while garak is busy taking some INCREDIBLY illegal drug he somehow procured. He is later questioned by odo and immediately becomes suspect number 1 because hes so incapacitated he cant come up with an alibi. He cannot say he was doing the incredibly illegal drug because he doesnt realise the federation would not publicly execute him over this. Bonus if he was doing suspicious shit the past few days to procure the orion syndicate disco dust that doomed his ass